meain

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish mían (“mineral, ore”).

Noun

meain f (genitive singular meainey)

1. ore
2. mine

Derived terms

• co-veain (“alloy”)
• meain ghunney (“gunmetal”)
• meainagh (“metalliferous”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meain	veain	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language